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differentiate

[dif-uh-ren-shee-eyt] / ˌdɪf əˈrɛn ʃiˌeɪt /




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When party doesn’t differentiate candidates, voters tend to rely on other “simple cues or heuristics,” Stauffer said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

This was used to differentiate between those with and without endometriosis, correctly identifying more than 95% of endometriosis patients.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Palantir’s stock drop comes even as the company receives praise for its AI business, which has helped differentiate it from other software companies.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

“We will see who over-automated, and which ones lost the knowledge that lets them differentiate themselves from other companies,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

“And each tag is set at a different frequency, so you can differentiate between the sharks.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

For now, a court has temporarily blocked the department from moving forward with the part of the rule that differentiates loan limits between different professions.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

But as the AGs’ lawsuit notes, “Section 122 expressly differentiates between ‘balance of payments’ and ‘balance of trade.’

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 8, 2026

People fall in love with the gunk that differentiates us from one another.

From Slate Jan. 7, 2026

The mining differentiates American Bitcoin from other so-called digital asset treasuries, or DATs, Roth argued.

From Barron's Dec. 10, 2025

It’s just one more thing that differentiates us.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Instead, its leading firms compete through innovation, producing highly differentiated, technology-intensive components that occupy critical positions in the global AI supply chain.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

In a statement, Apollo described EasyJet as "one of the most attractive businesses in the global aviation sector and a highly differentiated franchise with significant long-term growth potential".

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

"The network used what it had learned to compare how 16 descriptors differentiated between LDL and HDL structures at different temperatures," reports Nobuyuki Matubayasi, senior author.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Some health researchers have been working to "destigmatise loneliness" by differentiating between chronic loneliness forced by circumstance and those who have agency to choose to live and spend time alone.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

He explains this glaring inconsistency, sort of, by differentiating between active and passive real-estate investment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

One source said: "He could have at least said some parties differentiating between his own party and some of the others."

From BBC May 12, 2026

The company was exploring gate-based models early on, but abandoned those efforts in favor of differentiating itself through its focus on annealing, which has since become its bread and butter.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

He felt himself included once again in the circle of humanity and was expecting from both the doctor and the locksmith, without differentiating between them with any real precision, splendid and surprising results.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka




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